A Tuscaloosa attorney has been charged with bribing a witness in a drug case.

Michael Langston Hughes, 34, was arrested Monday after a grand jury indicted him on the felony charge Feb. 7.

Hughes was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail just after 1 a.m. Monday and released about an hour later on $10,000 bond.

According to a grand jury indictment, Hughes offered to provide legal services to a witness “with intent to corruptly influence the testimony of that person, induce that person to avoid legal process summoning her to testify, or induce that person to absent herself from an official proceeding to which she was legally summoned.”

Further information about the charges wasn’t included in the court files and prosecutors couldn’t be reached Monday. Chris Hargett, a retired senior associate district attorney for Tuscaloosa County, will prosecute the case because members of the District Attorney’s Office staff will be witnesses.

The woman was listed as a witness in a 2007 case against one of Langston’s clients who was accused of selling drugs within three miles of a school.

The case did not go to trial because the defendant pleaded guilty in 2010. A co-defendant who is not an attorney, Victoria McCaa, was indicted on the same charge in 2011.

The case against her is still pending.

Hughes earned his law degree in 2008 from Valparaiso University in Indiana, according to the Alabama State Bar.